Mr. Rogers visits the Engelhardt Factory:Here is a video link from 1985 when Mr. Rogers visited the Englehardt factory. It shows them constructing an entire bass old school, using the same factory and jigs that they originally made the old Kay basses with. Very Cool!

If you are looking at buying a vintage plywood bass and are outside of our local region, with an ipad or iphone and a skype or facetime account, we are available to setup a live video stream and checkout the potential instrument with you. ‘Not as good as having it here in person on our workbench and it comes with no guarantees from our end, but a second set of professional eyes helps a lot. This is the same thing we insist on when buying a bass long distance.

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